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Holy moly

:oops:

Hope that wasnt a customers motor..lol:lol:

Love the way the extract pipe for the exhaust "grows" just before it lets go!

 

Jeff TT

Has Bean been engine rebuilding again :lol:

Spotted that in youtube the other day.

 

I used to work at the Perkins engine factory in Shrewsbury and quite often an engine would let go in the testbeds.the 'best' one was a CV12 Challenger tank engine that had both turbos fail and it started running on the engine oil when the fuel was shut off and it ran until it ran out of oil and the front 6 cylinders siezed, the rear six tried to carry on running for a fraction of a second and the crankshaft broke in half.one half came out the one side of the block, the other half out of the other side!.it completely wrote off the test cell and the bang could be felt through the floor of the factory.

Spotted that in youtube the other day.

 

I used to work at the Perkins engine factory in Shrewsbury and quite often an engine would let go in the testbeds.the 'best' one was a CV12 Challenger tank engine that had both turbos fail and it started running on the engine oil when the fuel was shut off and it ran until it ran out of oil and the front 6 cylinders siezed, the rear six tried to carry on running for a fraction of a second and the crankshaft broke in half.one half came out the one side of the block, the other half out of the other side!.it completely wrote off the test cell and the bang could be felt through the floor of the factory.

 

Id love too have seen that.Bet it was quite scary !! all that engine shrapnell flying around.Its incredible when you think of the forces needed to shear and break cranks and puncture the block.

There's still time yet! :)

There's still time yet! :)

 

:laugh:

:slap:. my engine is running just fine that I built i will have you know .lol

 

Sorry i couldnt resist it :w00t: Tis good shes still going strong :cool2:

thats one way to get the head off i guess!

Id love too have seen that.Bet it was quite scary !! all that engine shrapnell flying around.Its incredible when you think of the forces needed to shear and break cranks and puncture the block.

 

There was a guy in the test cell altering the fuelpump just before the engine went bang, had he have still been in there it would have killed him.there were bits of engine embedded in the walls and ceiling, those 24ltr v12's dont mess about!.